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Douglas Fairbanks Room
At The Pickford
House the Douglas Fairbanks room is a large and
handsomely furnished resting place. Doug lived very much
like a great and beloved king and you will too with the
huge king size bed, fireplace, and sumptuous antiques.
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Short Bio
Fairbanks really enjoyed making movies from the start
of his screen career. From 1915 to 1920, he tried his hand at occasionally
adapting his own scenarios. By the time
United Artists (the company he partly founded, in
1919, and actively participated in) was operating very
successfully, he found his niche in costume pictures. He knew
what kind of script worked best to showcase his
persona. Beginning in 1922, he resumed writing and
wrote many of his own entertaining and creative story
lines under the pseudonym of Elton Thomas (his two
middle names). These feature films included: Douglas
Fairbanks in Robin Hood (United Artists, 1922), The
Thief of Baghdad (1924), The Black Pirate (1926), The
Gaucho (1927) and The Iron Mask (1929).
Doug lived very much like a great and beloved king. He
was an active member of society and worked towards the
betterment of his beloved Southern California, as well
as the movie industry - co-founding Beverly Hills,
United Artists and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts
and Sciences. He was a world traveler and, with his
queen Mary Pickford, thrilled the imagination of
people all over the globe. It seemed as if this
dynamic individual would outlive all his
contemporaries.
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The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it
-Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
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